1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:13,919 Good afternoon. You're listening to Gambling with an Edge now here your host Bob 2 00:00:14,039 --> 00:00:19,320 Dancer and Richard. Good afternoon. Welcome to Gambling with an Edge on Bob 3 00:00:19,359 --> 00:00:26,000 Dancer and I'm rich Our guest today is Jimmy Jazz, who frequently has frequent 4 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:30,800 flyer miles, gift cards and low roller kind of bargains in Las Vegas. 5 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:36,119 Welcome back to Gambling with an Edge, Jimmy Jazz. Thanks Bob, Thanks 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,600 Richard. Is always a pleasure to be here, all right. So there's 7 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:44,920 one that's only good for a few more weeks, so let's talk about that 8 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:49,799 first. It has to do with Southwest Airlines, who've had lots of negative 9 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:55,359 publicity recently. Yeah, they did something rare though. They actually admittedly screwed 10 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:59,679 up and they needed to fix their situation. So that's almost unheard of in 11 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:04,319 the corporate You made the mistakes. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, we've 12 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,519 talked about Southwest a whole bunch of times on this show, and in general, 13 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,879 I think they're a very good airline and they have a very good frequent 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,920 flyer program, and to me, their companion fare is just the best deal 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,560 going. So what they did was they made it even easier for a limited 16 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:26,319 time, so you can apply for one credit card. Annual fee is sixty 17 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,920 nine dollars. Spend four thousand dollars in three months, and that will get 18 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:38,719 you thirty thousand miles plus companion fare till February twenty eighth of twenty twenty, 19 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:45,079 So basically you get companion fare for nine months to a year, depending on 20 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:51,120 how quickly you accomplished the spend for only opening up one credit card with you 21 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:55,000 know, not a tiny spend, but certainly a management amount of spend. 22 00:01:55,359 --> 00:02:00,400 Thirty thousand miles should get you at least one ticket or something you want to 23 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,680 go in the US, and Southwest flies, so you'll get your ticket plus 24 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,439 a companion of your choice and you both fly basically nothing. So it's good 25 00:02:09,439 --> 00:02:14,840 through March thirteenth. If people want to do this through a referral with me, 26 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:19,439 I can certainly do that. If you use my link for the please 27 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,599 make sure it's the same aims. Companies will not give their best offer. 28 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,439 I'm finding that to be less and less decay, so hopefully this will be 29 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:34,080 one of those cases where they offer you the best available promotion and the referral 30 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,639 bonus. The usual Chase rules apply. You can't have open more than five 31 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,919 credit card five or more credit cards in more months. You can't have this 32 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,080 particular credit card from Chase in those two years. So there's those little restrictions, 33 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,520 but those aren't any credit card you open. You know, if you 34 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:57,280 have a flight planned in twenty twenty three and it's someplace, Southwest flies is 35 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:00,159 a great way to do that flight. Very inexpensive. Oh wait, I 36 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:06,080 have a question about that. So, Jimmy, you just pay the the 37 00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:09,759 yearly fee every year for the car. I do because what Southwest does. 38 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,879 It's a sixty nine dollars annual fee and they'll give you three thousand miles. 39 00:03:15,479 --> 00:03:20,400 So I value miles at one point five cents. So let's like getting forty 40 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,400 five dollars. So the annual fee works out to be actually costing me what, 41 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:28,000 twenty four dollars out of pocket. I'm willing to pay that. Plus 42 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,159 they have some perks. Chase has some you know, some benefits here and 43 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:37,439 there. The points you earn are one to one for normal spend, so 44 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,000 to me, that's worth one point five percent. They have some deals for 45 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:45,199 dining and travel where they get you a little higher rate and if you use 46 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:50,439 the card to spend for stuff on Southwest Lane, food or services or whatever, 47 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:53,800 those I think every points per dollars spend to me as well worth it 48 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:55,800 to keep the annual card. If you want to do, you know, 49 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,000 a one year and done, I would recommend doing an almost two year and 50 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,680 done. Pay one and you're just grabbing the card for a year hit and 51 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:09,080 canceling. I think it'll give you some longevity in the credit card. But 52 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,360 you still even if you if you sign up again for the sixty nine, 53 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,759 of which you get so much back, you still keep free Companion Fair. 54 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,199 The Companion Fair is only good till February of twenty twenty four. You know, 55 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,279 usually Companion Fair you have to earn one hundred and thirty five thousand points 56 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:29,920 to get Companion Fair, so by flying that's a whole lot of flying or 57 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:33,560 a whole lot of spent. So they keep on making it easier to get 58 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,040 Companion Fair, and to me it's it's such a great deal. I don't 59 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:40,120 know why they do it this way, but they do it. I'm glad 60 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,680 they do. So the Companion Fair for this is kind of like an intro 61 00:04:43,959 --> 00:04:46,920 for one year and at that point you can see if you like it or 62 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:48,720 not, and then if you want to do it the following year. There 63 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:55,480 are certainly ways to do that. Good And given their negative publicity, they 64 00:04:55,519 --> 00:05:00,480 am incentive to do this. Maybe that's why they're doing it. This is 65 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,439 this is to me the best companion fair offer I've ever seen from them. 66 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,639 Yeah, if you're now Bonnie Knife fly places where South plus goes, and 67 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,720 so this is an excellent deal for us. I've not been playing the credit 68 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:17,639 card game, but um, I think I am now a buyer of this 69 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,439 one. All right, Well, if you need a referral, I know 70 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:24,879 somebody who has them. Oh well, good. I you sent a link 71 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,439 to Richard to post in the show notes. Is that is that? Does 72 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,000 that give you the referral? No, that's just a description. I will 73 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:34,759 I will send you a link that will show my ref And you want that, 74 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,920 send it to me because you'll have to send it to me. Yeah, 75 00:05:39,959 --> 00:05:46,199 we'll do perfect. All right, let's talk about online gambling accounts funding 76 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,519 them with gift cards. Okay, So Ben MGM fifty dollars gift card, 77 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,720 the four dollar activation fee. So I looked on the back of the card 78 00:05:56,759 --> 00:05:59,639 to go through all the rules and rags, and I noticed they will also 79 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,279 give you a ten dollar free bet, So a ten dollar free bet is 80 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:06,439 worth four to fifty about once you pay the juice on your wager, so 81 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,959 that takes down the activation fee fifty cents or so. That makes it a 82 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,720 pretty good play. You can get one percent back on almost any credit card. 83 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,839 It's a break even. The downside is it's only a fifty dollars gift 84 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,759 card. You're going to load any amount of money into her. So then 85 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,600 the second one I noticed was from Caesar's, which is up to one hundred 86 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,920 dollars gift card with a three dollar ninety five activation fee but nothing to offset 87 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,759 it. So I think I bought one of those just to see how it. 88 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:35,639 Then I noticed what I thought would be the best option, which was 89 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,879 straft Kings, which had one hundred dollars gift card with no activation fee. 90 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,639 So that this is good. I bought a couple of them. I downloaded 91 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:46,839 them. I saw the register to my accounts. It's great. I made 92 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,439 a bet just to make sure the funding. Actually I didn't do anything with 93 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,639 the account. I bought two more gift card did the same thing. I 94 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,439 wanted to make sure that it was repeatable and worked. And then I made 95 00:06:59,439 --> 00:07:02,839 the mistake of actually withdrawing two hundred dollars because for the wagering I was going 96 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,720 to do, and they lacked my account. They told me I had committed 97 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:14,399 suspicious activity and to get it unlocked, I needed to send them a picture 98 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,680 on my face. I said, okay, I'll do that, so I 99 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,800 sent it to him and it came out blurry or not clear enough. I'd 100 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:24,240 like, three times, how do you get your face to hold your license? 101 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,360 I use my thing, but then they just said that's not good enough. 102 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:34,639 We need receipts from your purchases. So I don't know about you, 103 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:39,680 but I don't always keep receipts back three months purchase. I happen to have 104 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:44,759 one set. I had the gift card, the receipt, and there's a 105 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:46,680 little activation thing you get to in case there's any issues with the cards. 106 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,800 So I sent him a copy of all that. They said, okay, 107 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,879 that's good, but that's only for one of the gift cards, and I 108 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,639 said okay, So I sent them pictures of all four gift cards and they 109 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:57,160 said, you still don't have the receipts. So then I looked at my 110 00:07:57,279 --> 00:08:01,720 online account with Kroger, and fortunately they actually keep all your receipts, so 111 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:05,480 it showed the purchases for the draft Kings gift cards. I sent them all 112 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,839 that in for me and they said, okay, well, now you have 113 00:08:07,839 --> 00:08:11,480 to agree to our terms and conditions to use these. Turns out that to 114 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:16,040 use a gift card there was actually a spend where of it you have to 115 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:20,279 run the money through to make the funds withdrawble. So I finally went through 116 00:08:20,519 --> 00:08:24,920 all of that, and after about three weeks of this, I finally got 117 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:30,199 my ankle. Now my fault one hundred percent for not reading all their terms 118 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:33,679 and conditions. It just didn't occur to me that I would need to have 119 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,279 any sort of restriction to a cash So I know they were talking about money 120 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:43,159 laundering and stolen but what's interesting is they didn't restrict the deposit. All they 121 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,919 restricted wasn't so it seems like they're concerned about money laundering if it comes out 122 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:52,919 of their pocket and not. So that was a frustrating deal, but a 123 00:08:52,919 --> 00:08:56,279 good learning experience. So you know, when you first said this, I 124 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:01,679 was thinking, Wow, this would be a great way to churn. But 125 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,320 now it sounds like it is not going to be a good way to churn. 126 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:11,080 Well, I mean if they were offering thousand dollars cards then maybe, 127 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:16,879 But yeah, I'm sure if you bought five thousand worth of gift cards and 128 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:22,399 deposited them all, it could take you months to get money out of them. 129 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,240 And I think your credit card company might say, hey, we notice 130 00:09:26,279 --> 00:09:30,519 you go to your store and you buy a thousand. They might have an 131 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:33,840 issue. So then our local casino, which is now used to be Greektown, 132 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,879 is now Hollywood Greek. They started a promotion or actually allowed you to 133 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:45,279 fund your gambling account through their app to where I could load money from a 134 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:48,480 credit card into the app, plug my phone into the slot machine, and 135 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,399 transfer them from the app to the slot machine. I thought, okay, 136 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:56,840 this has got possibilities too, So Hayley Marie gave it a test run and 137 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:05,919 deposited fifty dollars. We'll no cash fee. We're getting there. Oh okay, 138 00:10:05,399 --> 00:10:09,440 so no cash fee from the credit card, but Hollywood charges a ten 139 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:16,080 dollars per transaction fee. Oh yeah, but the first time they waive that, 140 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:18,840 they give you the ten dollars back, and it also gets you a 141 00:10:18,879 --> 00:10:22,559 bonus on their drives. They have these drawings once a week for people fifty 142 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,159 and over, and I think the price is like one hundred and fifty bucks. 143 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:28,519 But if you have the app and you have money loaded in it, 144 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,840 they give you an extra hundred and fifty so there is sub benefit. But 145 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,039 it wasn't the play I thought it would be. I would say the best 146 00:10:35,039 --> 00:10:41,200 play is if you're going to sign up for a DraftKings account, I would 147 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,039 do whatever the max is on their free bet if a thousand or two thousand, 148 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:46,679 I'm not even sure what I would do that with the gift cards, 149 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:50,000 and that would get you half of the spend if it's two thousand on your 150 00:10:50,039 --> 00:10:54,240 Chase credit card we talked about above, so you would fund your account, 151 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,720 get the little bit of whatever you earn from your credit card, and also 152 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,440 clear half of years. I think that's the only real plum as far as 153 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,720 an ongoing deal for loading your account. Who knows, maybe in the future 154 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,879 they'll up the limits reduce the fees. That was my experience with funding online 155 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:16,759 accounts in Michigan, and for those people who don't live in Michigan, disinformation 156 00:11:16,039 --> 00:11:22,279 is largely irrelevant. For well, I wouldn't say that, I wouldn't say 157 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,600 that at all. I mean it's been MGM and DraftKings and Caesar's and there 158 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:33,039 may be very similar kinds of things in other states that have legal online gambling. 159 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,240 So yeah, I cannot believe it's a Michigan onlything. Investigating yeah, 160 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:41,399 absolutely, and especially I mean if you're a low roller and you want to 161 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,360 just fund the account and get a few points on your credit card, it's 162 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:48,480 certainly not. You have to buy the card and then rip the label off 163 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,480 the back and then it's a little bit of work. You know, if 164 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,720 that's worth it for maybe you get five percent spend with Hayley, Marie and 165 00:11:54,799 --> 00:11:58,440 I we have a deal with Kroger and gift cards that they're worth basically twenty 166 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,159 percent to me through the store. It's for me, it's still probably worth 167 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:05,240 it. I will be hesitant, but it's got possibilities and one of those 168 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:11,919 things that should be monitored. Well. Also, you really don't play online. 169 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,879 But for people who actually bet sports or whatever, I mean, usually 170 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,679 they're betting a lot more money than this. But you know, for somebody 171 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,639 who actually does want to run the money through, you know, it sounds 172 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:28,879 like there are possibilities there. Right, I don't bet sports much. I 173 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:31,919 do some of the online casino, the bonuses and the hustling. Actually, 174 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:37,559 Hollywood come directize this promo now where if I deposit five hundred dollars on gambling 175 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,159 account at the cage, they give me one hundred dollars in free play bar 176 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,559 stools at So I've been doing that once a week for the last year. 177 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,600 So I run some money through there. Like I said, I think it's 178 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:52,879 a good play. Possibly for it'll get a little bit better. But I 179 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:54,919 mean if they really if they opened it up and said you can buy a 180 00:12:54,919 --> 00:13:01,679 gift card dollars and there was no activation fee over advantage, that you think, 181 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,200 I think that might be an easy way to do spin, that's for 182 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:11,480 sure. Yeah. Now you mentioned you do referrals, So how does this 183 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:18,279 So referral means you get paid to do it? What do you give us 184 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,919 if you get paid? What I was doing in the past was splitting the 185 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,919 what I call the cash value the referral. So I send you a referral 186 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,480 link for a Chase card. Chase gives me points we might value them at 187 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,080 depending a piece. I would send you a check for one hundred dollars or 188 00:13:37,159 --> 00:13:41,039 half of that. I thought you valued them at one point five, But 189 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,919 that's that's if you use them for the airfare. I do it for the 190 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,679 cash value. But like if you go to the Point Sky or a Million 191 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:54,080 Mile Secrets or any of those sites, nobody I've ever seen splits the referral 192 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,120 bonus accept or gives you anything for um. Curious thing happened though. Two 193 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:03,320 things. One started doing refer for business cards, which they hadn't done, 194 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,159 and the value is two hundred and fifty dollars on it, So that's that's 195 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,200 a positive. The downside is we got a letter from Chase and at ten 196 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,600 ninety nine for a thousand dollars and we did a little investigating and looked at 197 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:22,799 So that's the downside. So I have revised my limit split where you get 198 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,519 a third, I get a third between the IRS and my local government. 199 00:14:26,519 --> 00:14:28,960 They get a third. That's my new split for now. I don't know 200 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,799 if they've actually done this in the past. This is something I've had any 201 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,080 significant of referrals. I don't know if every company does it. I'll start 202 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:41,600 doing it for lower than six hundred dollars limits. But another another development that 203 00:14:41,679 --> 00:14:45,519 makes the referrals of less valuable than they were, but still all right. 204 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:52,120 You have a comment on credit cards versus and slot clubs and some connected somehow. 205 00:14:52,720 --> 00:15:00,639 Yes, so I know various slot clubs do status match, Harris being 206 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:05,559 one of them who used to or Caesar's. Also with Chase World of Hyatt 207 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:11,360 credit card, I got Pearl status at MGM. So it'd be cool if 208 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:15,240 there was some place where I could see all the different I might talk to 209 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,840 mister Curtis at the Las Vegas Advisor and to be interested in making as part 210 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:24,679 of his newsletter or website. But it'd be great if I could go there 211 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,279 and say, yeah, I have this level card, noire, remember at 212 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,759 what will that get me at Caesar's? And then some of the times are 213 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:35,600 a little copper. You have a credit card that gets you hotel status status 214 00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:39,480 gets you slack club status. I've heard a few of those deals before. 215 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,080 The reason I mentioned that, Like I said, it might be something worthwhile 216 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:48,240 and it would certainly fit into the Las Vegas Advisor's mission to be all end 217 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:54,399 all floor feature. If it's doable, Yeah, I can see a lot 218 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,559 of desire for that. I think a lot of people would love to have 219 00:15:58,679 --> 00:16:03,639 that a site that would give you that information. Yeah, the casino slot 220 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,000 clubs stink about telling you what's going on, either because they don't know where, 221 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:08,840 they don't care, I'm not sure which, but try and get the 222 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,600 information out of the booth. Exercising freshman. All right, you play at 223 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:21,720 the Four Queens in downtown Las Vegas. I do they You're You're welcome. 224 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:27,759 They recently merged their slot club with Ben Yet, how have things changed? 225 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,799 Well, we were I think there's two levels. I think it's like a 226 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,639 diamond and a double diamond. So we were consistently three hundred to four hundred 227 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:41,679 free play, maybe one hundred dollars in food. My last mailer one hundred 228 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,440 dollars in no food credit. But still the rumor. What's interesting is Haley 229 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:49,080 Marie still got the four but she tends to play not the best end. 230 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,000 We'll play the slots. So maybe that had something who plays pretty well, 231 00:16:53,039 --> 00:16:57,200 but all his offer was so I'm thinking only the best game they are. 232 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,039 Again, you'd be hard to get any the infirmable that says that based on 233 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,240 my March mailer versus my February, they would definitely decrease the attractive myth or 234 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:08,920 best place. Well, I'm going to push back on that a little bit, 235 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,880 for they've actually taken out quite a few of the best machines. But 236 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:22,960 the mailers varied month to month, and so there will be times where it's 237 00:17:23,039 --> 00:17:27,920 not clear like your last year, your April versus your May, versus your 238 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,720 June versus your July. They were likely all different and it's not always clear. 239 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:40,559 Why So, basing the fact that, yes, our mailers went down 240 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,799 in March, but we'll see what they are in April, We'll see what 241 00:17:44,839 --> 00:17:48,319 they are in May, it is still it is still an excellent low roll 242 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,000 or play. I'll agree with that. What I'm basing that our last trip 243 00:17:53,079 --> 00:17:59,920 was November and then December, January, and February offers were all similar, 244 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,599 and the March off decreased. For a friend, but that my wife and 245 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,359 I have a buddy in the Midwest, the sharpest of anybody, and he 246 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:11,920 emailed me probably a week ago and said, hey, guess what, And 247 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,720 sure enough, miler and his March mailer were significant. I hope you're right, 248 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,480 Bob, but I think there they've got some criteria downgrade. And yeah, 249 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:26,200 and especially for those people who are getting mailers separate mailers from Binions and 250 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:30,119 Four Queens and are now getting one mailer for the two places. So that 251 00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:36,440 is another way I never played as Binions for me, for my buddy or 252 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,599 Haley Marie. We'll see. Four Queens is still a great place. The 253 00:18:40,839 --> 00:18:45,160 clientele in the area is less pretty than it used to be. The basic 254 00:18:45,519 --> 00:18:49,400 Hugos, the group of I'm not eliminating them, the rotation, it's it 255 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,480 won't be a reason for a trip anymore. In addition, another reason that 256 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:56,799 the soul reason. I mean previously I thought, you know, they were 257 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,119 pretty generous, and I don't think that'll be the king. Yeah, they 258 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,720 still have dollar ten seven with a point one seven club and a point three 259 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:12,039 months comps. It's hard to find a local casino in Las Vegas or anywhere 260 00:19:11,839 --> 00:19:15,920 where it has that generous of an offer. Oh, I agree with that 261 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:21,680 one, all right. You've been getting sticky buttons on Bonus Streak Ultimate X. 262 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:26,079 Yeah, and this is one of those lessons learned and a little bit 263 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,680 on. How So, one of my local casinos has this game, and 264 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,640 for better or worse, I play it. I mean, I fully admitted 265 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:36,000 I don't know the strategy for pick up some loose multiple play it because it's 266 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,960 actually what are the for me, the most fun games to play. So 267 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:44,559 I was playing one time after a couple multiplayers on this straight well this is 268 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:48,920 really cool. So I did the touchscreen and I swiped across the hold of 269 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,519 them all and then hit the deal button. So I think the fourth card 270 00:19:52,599 --> 00:19:56,880 didn't know in Bonus Streak, get a huge error costs you not only and 271 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,759 the multiplication of the most it's a pretty expensive mistake. So I called. 272 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,680 I called the suit over and she came at what happened and I explained it. 273 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:07,599 She said, I'm gonna review the film, which surprised me, and 274 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,599 I'm not sure I completely believe it. But she was on the phone for 275 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,319 a while and came back and said, Nope, that wasn't a mistake. 276 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:15,720 That was not going to pay you. And I asked, could I see 277 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,319 what you saw? And she said, and I was playing while she was 278 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,759 still there on the phone, your finger across all the cards. And she 279 00:20:22,759 --> 00:20:26,960 said, well, that's not a machine mistake, that's your mistake. And 280 00:20:27,039 --> 00:20:30,920 she said the only way she would pay for the is if I held all 281 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:36,119 the it showed them all and then between the time did I do that and 282 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,440 hit the deal draw? So this particular casino takes a very very narrow view 283 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:45,039 of what a machine error. The lesson learned is, if you're Hustle and 284 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,720 Bonus Street, you're not playing a lot of play slow, take a look 285 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,079 at the machine. And the other thing is is even if yeah, that 286 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,799 was a machine problem or the touchscreen to reinstate, the hand is almost in 287 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,599 poland Bonus Street multiplication. So even if she said, okay, you head, 288 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:03,480 you're straight, I'll give you that doesn't correct for the most nor get 289 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,680 me back to the previous state. Lesson learned is if you play those games 290 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:10,680 and the machines aren't in good shape, be very very if you make a 291 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,279 listen. Yeah, and so after you learned that sliding your finger across doesn't 292 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,480 work on that machine, why did you continue to do it? To show 293 00:21:18,519 --> 00:21:21,599 her? I wanted to I did it, and I would stop and I 294 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:25,279 would look at it. I wanted to show her that that action didn't result 295 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:26,839 in Holy, I don't do that anymore. I sit there and I play 296 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,759 one finger on one very slowly. Well, I play a fat but I 297 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:33,720 give it a second before I hit the button. I think I give it 298 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,240 more than a second on these games now, because like I said, if 299 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,000 you if you're playing that and you're just going for the mind, you're going 300 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:42,480 to play five hands or it it takes you ten seconds for a hand instead 301 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:47,480 of three seconds or two seconds, it's really noping well worthy. All right, 302 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,240 let's move on. Let's talk about safety deposit box. All right. 303 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,680 So I know you've been a pretty big proponent of them, and you've mentioned 304 00:21:56,079 --> 00:22:00,599 on a couple of different shows, And I think, what is that that's 305 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,039 supposed to put and you're not supposed to put valuables in this? So I 306 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:07,079 would say I think a lot of people do both of those. And if 307 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:11,519 you read your contract a little bit, if something happens and the bank actually 308 00:22:11,559 --> 00:22:15,319 gets robbed, some outbreaks into boxes and steals all your you don't have a 309 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,519 lot of room. And that's granted a very what's the warm is the bank 310 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:26,000 merges or the branch closes and they have to somehow transfer that those assets to 311 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:30,759 a different location or a different company. So you have to rely to make 312 00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:36,240 the trainer work secure your ask. They usually tell you you usually know bank 313 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,000 isn't. So I would suggest if that's the case, get everything out of 314 00:22:40,039 --> 00:22:42,839 your safety pos close it down again, you don't have a whole lot of 315 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:49,319 recourse if that's I think that's a highly, highly unlikely scenario. I mean, 316 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:55,319 I can't remember the last time I heard of a bank safety deposit box 317 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,920 being robbed. Not robbed, but the second one is the more common one. 318 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,799 Yeah, yeah, And especially for people who have boxes around the country 319 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:08,599 and cities they don't visit often, that can be a problem. Also, 320 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:14,880 I've mentioned on the show before that I know somebody who the bank closed their 321 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,039 accounts and told them they didn't want them as a customer anymore because they were 322 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:23,319 going in and out of their safety deposit box too often. And the bank 323 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,160 assumed it meant that they were keeping cash in there, So that's something to 324 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,960 be aware of as well. That might be the official reason, but my 325 00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:36,119 guess is the bank really doesn't make any money on a safety deposit. It's 326 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,440 a lot of maintenance and procedure, and every time you come in they come 327 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,759 over and assist you. I think it's just a manpower. I really don't 328 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:48,559 want you in there once a week looking at it because it takes one of 329 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:52,680 their employees away from doing something else. I think that's more of the reason 330 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:55,960 why they want want to do it, and at least in my area, 331 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:59,640 finding a safetypoxit is getting tough. A lot of branches don't have them, 332 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,920 and it's a money deal. Well for casino game, there's many most well 333 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:11,759 many poker rooms have safety deposit box and they're specifically so that players can keep 334 00:24:11,799 --> 00:24:17,359 their chips and cash in there between sessions in the casino. So this is 335 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:22,960 a very common thing for poker rooms to have. And I don't know what 336 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,599 the rules are about if that's if that casino is held up, but this 337 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,920 is what players use them for. They put their chips in there, they 338 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,960 put their money in there, right, But it's not a government backed FDIC 339 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:38,839 regulated bank, it's the casino, so I think the rules are a little 340 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:41,880 bit different. All I'm saying though, is if you have a safe deposit 341 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,359 box or your bank merges, grab your stuff out and potentially be adding. 342 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:49,880 Okay, but if you're not keeping money or valuables in there, what are 343 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,839 what are you supposed to keep in your safety depom I guess your will, 344 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,839 your trust, list of passwords, stuff like that into your house. Yeah, 345 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:03,599 yeah, that's right. Stuff Some people keep their birth certificates. All 346 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,880 right, Frank B was on the show a week or two ago talk and 347 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:15,680 one of the things we talked about is casino's resetting slot or video poker machines, 348 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:22,519 And you came across this on Bonus Dreek Ultimate X. You know, 349 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:26,119 when I go looking for a play, I'll cycle through all the combinations, 350 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:32,400 and I won't say frequently, probably at least fifteen. I've seen the hand 351 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,200 three, four or five, six of spades and hearts as the hand played 352 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:41,240 in that order. Doubt yeah, in that exact order, in that exact 353 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:45,680 suit. So I doubt that the players have left it that particular hand that 354 00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:51,839 many. So I was wondering if that's a default the machine or the machine 355 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:56,680 pop to reboot, and more to my concern is whether that's the way wipe 356 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,759 out balling the machine and then it goes to bad. So I know I've 357 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,759 seen that a lot of time. If you have any insight, well, 358 00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:07,319 I have seen. I don't check out that's not one of the machines I 359 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:17,279 I vulture, but I've definitely seen something similar on regular Ultimax machine. There 360 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:21,319 it's two, three, four, five suited of spades, and I forget 361 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:29,039 the fifth card, and definitely one particular because I see that again and again 362 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,400 and so it's so after a while I get the message this is not a 363 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,559 good thing to be. They're obviously checking the machine, so I mean to 364 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,599 me, that should be illegal for them to wipe out them. It seems 365 00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:47,559 like you're changing the base play of the game, and I'm sure they'll have 366 00:26:47,559 --> 00:26:51,440 an argument against that, but that just seemed pretty much blatant cheating. But 367 00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:56,119 yeah, it is. It is. You're altering the you know, the 368 00:26:56,559 --> 00:27:00,920 random nature of the game. And blackjack players have had this argument for forty 369 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:07,920 years or whatever, that preferential shuffling, which is essentially the same thing when 370 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,359 the dealers are you know, counting and whenever the deck goes positive, they 371 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:17,119 decide to shuffle. You know, they've been doing that forever. And yeah, 372 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:22,400 it is cheating, but it's cheating that the gaming control board allows. 373 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,079 So I don't know what corrective action you can take. I guess you could 374 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:30,960 refuse to go to casinos that do that. Then again, you're going to 375 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:36,759 colte the game anyway. It sounds like it's a little little bit of cost 376 00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:40,920 of doing business. Yeah, bringing it to their attention, showing that you're 377 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,880 aware of all this and checking it is not a smart move. I'll just 378 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,680 tell him at three to four or five six nine, not my lucky hand. 379 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,960 I'll have bad luck good luck with that one, and then you won't 380 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,119 have to worry about whether or not you're going to frequent that casino anymore. 381 00:27:56,039 --> 00:28:00,519 All Right, we're taking a break from Jimmy Jazz. We'll be back. 382 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,599 Brief word from our sponsors, Richard. If you're serious about card counting, 383 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:11,880 the Blackjack Apprenticeship membership is a great way to learn, train, network, 384 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,960 and get the resources you need to succeed. 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You know, it's not a fortune, but I mean 410 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,039 I would rather I had the in comps a year. The casino have it, 411 00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:11,039 and it's not really that hard to do. Now. Tied into this, 412 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:17,759 my local for the first time is giving you one to one free play 413 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,799 for your cop dot, which they've never currently. If I give them give 414 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,880 me one dollar in hand on one couple days and much they're giving you one 415 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,480 dollar for one dollar, which I'm not sure they understand what they're doing going 416 00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:37,519 to be giving away a troit realized that that's their issue. The significance to 417 00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:41,640 me, though, is that it's going to affect how I play a little 418 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,000 bit. Do some of the advantage slap play. Say, for example, 419 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:48,079 you have a play number that's thirty two on a given machine, and previously 420 00:30:48,119 --> 00:30:52,799 you're getting point two in cash back one point the one point three percent in 421 00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,319 cop point six. With this promotion, you're getting the full one point. 422 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,880 Now you're getting one. So maybe instead of playing that number if you're playing 423 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,119 numbers thirty thirty, so it gives you a little more outability on what you 424 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,920 can play and also between and when I can gain those at one to one 425 00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:12,839 or the gift choppery. So I have one buddy who's a local hustler and 426 00:31:12,839 --> 00:31:18,240 he's probably got fifteen thousand, so that's going to be a significant chunk of 427 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:23,640 cash for him. And based on some other folks I've seen, that's not 428 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,839 so. I think on this particular date they're going to begin. Their bottom 429 00:31:27,839 --> 00:31:30,880 line doesn't look so good for March, so they're not there's no limit you 430 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:36,319 can you can cash what you have. I didn't I read the roles real 431 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,039 quick. It just said one to one comps for I'm guessing it's going to 432 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,000 come out to be one hundred dollars per day or something of that nature. 433 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:47,240 But well, i'll take a look at I'll jump you note. But whatever 434 00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:49,839 it is I would try to do as much as possible on the first day 435 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:55,279 because it may not last. Well, they're doing two to one on a 436 00:31:55,319 --> 00:31:57,039 couple of days and then one to one the last day. I think it's 437 00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:00,920 Wednesdays in March. The first three time you can do two to one and 438 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,559 the last time it's well, I don't see why anybody would do the two 439 00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:07,000 to heart unless you're like out of around on that last day. But I've 440 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,400 seen enough silly things happening casino. It's probably happened so well. And more 441 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:15,319 than that, depending on when it starts, you know, might start at 442 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:17,920 midnight the night before, might start at three am or six am, depending 443 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,559 on the casino day is the smart play is to do it when it starts. 444 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:29,400 Absolutely, it could easily be gone in an hour after it starts. 445 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:31,960 Well, Hailey, Marie and I have you know, a couple hundred dollars, 446 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,880 maybe maybe five hundred dollars. It's a good play. But it's not 447 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,200 like my buddy H's ten thousand dollars, right, and he's there every day 448 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,400 and all kinds of weird hours, So for him it should definitely for me, 449 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,440 it wouldn't be worth, you know, getting there four in the morning 450 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,359 a fairly amount of spade day. I'll leave it for the big hitters. 451 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,240 I'll take advantage of it, all right. You saw an interesting sign at 452 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:58,519 the Cosmopolitan. Actually, I saw a picture of a side of the Cosmopolitan. 453 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,680 One of the local hustlers came up to me and said, hey, 454 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:05,319 look at this, and he showed me a picture and it showed a slot 455 00:33:05,359 --> 00:33:09,319 machine asmopolitan and I didn't get down the exact wording, but words the effect. 456 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:14,160 If you play this machine, this machine can be in a persistent state 457 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,960 where it has an advantage and there might be people milling about trying to get 458 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,240 you up. So yeah, and I looked online. I couldn't find any 459 00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:28,319 other reference to it. But I talked to another local hustle or buddy and 460 00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:30,039 he said, yeah, he's he's heard or seeing the same. I'll do 461 00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:34,559 a little more digging for that one. I sounds like they are, at 462 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,319 least at Cosmo, getting a little more hustlers now are they part of the 463 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,480 MJAM system yet they were going to be? I don't know. Has that 464 00:33:43,559 --> 00:33:47,680 merger taken place that I don't because if it is part of the MJAM system, 465 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:52,240 then you would think that all the properties would have the same kind of 466 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:57,960 sign. You would think well. And also, wasn't MGM the first to 467 00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:04,079 start backing people off of slot machine? I know I heard stories about back 468 00:34:04,119 --> 00:34:09,239 off MGM New York, New York miagege longer MGM was a while back. 469 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:14,559 So it's it's hard to find a casino that's faster than the Elk Cortez at 470 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:22,679 that you might right. Um back to a subject we were talking about five 471 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:31,599 minutes ago, on getting your your beverage at beverage machines instead of the food 472 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:39,360 court that actually can work at UM with higher end beverages wines. There are 473 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:47,599 casinos where they have a decent wine selection at the bars for players of certain 474 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,280 status, and so you can get a you know, a healthy poor for 475 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,639 a five dollar tip and take that into their nice restaurants with you for the 476 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:01,239 for a glass of wine that would cost twenty or twenty five dollars in the 477 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:07,800 restaurant, the bartenders in these special lounges will give you a healthy poor for 478 00:35:08,119 --> 00:35:14,079 a modest amount. It's the same kind of idea. We went to Ondiamo 479 00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:17,519 while I was meeting a buddy there and he actually walked in with the gina 480 00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:22,000 entirely plastic cup and sat down where to the waiter came over a nice glass 481 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:29,519 is Yeah, Dyamo is in the d in which is a circum system in 482 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:35,000 UM in downtown Las Vegas. All right, we want to thank you Jimmy 483 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,320 interesting ideas. As always, at the end of our show, we have 484 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:45,239 a recommended set. Earlier in the day I asked Richard if he had one, 485 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:50,119 and he said he didn't. Has that changed, Nope, hasn't changed. 486 00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:53,760 I got nothing this uh huh, Well all right, so then I 487 00:35:53,800 --> 00:36:00,000 will do one for those of you who are interested in storytelling, are listening 488 00:36:00,039 --> 00:36:04,440 to storytelling, and are planning to be in Las Vegas on Saturday, March 489 00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:10,239 eleventh, seven pm. There's a story slam with two of the people who 490 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,440 are my favorite storytellers. Ever, one is Richard and the other is me, 491 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:21,800 although the last is supposed to be a joke. One of the other 492 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,719 storytellers is one you would not have heard of, Dorothy Delhi, who is 493 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,920 also an excellent storyteller and well worth listening to. But that's not a name 494 00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:37,119 that most of you would have heard of. The topic will be first response. 495 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:44,880 At least a few of the stories are not really closely related to the 496 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:50,880 topic. It'll it'll cost you a dollar to get in, well at least 497 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,639 a dollar. It's pay what you can, pay what you want. Yeah, 498 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:58,400 they said, if anybody wants to pay one hundred thousand dollars, they 499 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,920 will accept it. So, so although it's a nonprofit, it's an arts 500 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,760 center. So you know, if you don't have to just pay a dollar, 501 00:37:08,079 --> 00:37:13,159 it would be nice to pay what you think is reasonable. Yeah. 502 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:19,639 Now my story is true, and it surrounds things happening in nineteen fifty four 503 00:37:19,679 --> 00:37:23,440 when I was seven years old. Some people said I was a real stinker 504 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:29,000 back then, which I'm sure our listeners would find hard to believe. Jimmy, 505 00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:34,239 do you have a recommended for our listeners? They do a while back. 506 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,000 There's something called a wonder wallet. It's basically a little bigger than a 507 00:37:38,039 --> 00:37:43,519 typical wall. What it has is these plastic inserts that will a bunch of 508 00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:47,559 credit card and they make different sizes. You can get the hold from eight 509 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:52,239 credit cards to sixty four. Now, the way they do that is they 510 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:57,360 double up on each slot. So I bought one of the sixty four slot 511 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,800 ones and I will use it only for singles. I'll be able to place 512 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,920 thirty two cards in there. So I carry about ten credit mental license, 513 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,280 health cards, some other stuff. So for me, it's an easy way 514 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:13,079 organize it, keep it ham. It actually fits in pretty much the pants 515 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:16,159 I wear. It's if I wear a dress pants. It's and I have 516 00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:21,039 a button on the career pocket. Sometimes I can't button dead button the sideset. 517 00:38:21,159 --> 00:38:24,960 It worked pretty well for me. Wonder wallets, I guess aren't manufactured, 518 00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:28,599 but they're still for sale. You can get them on an or eBay 519 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,760 or fifteen bucks. And the inserts though is curious though, so the sixty 520 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:37,400 four card inserts ten dollars a lot for fifteen it's kind of kind of funny 521 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,920 on the pricing. But I talked to the guy who are used to own 522 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,400 it. The city doesn't manufacture. He provides the inserts as a service, 523 00:38:45,119 --> 00:38:47,519 so it's not really a moneymaker for him, and he's gone on to me 524 00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:52,679 it's a very convenient way to organize credit cards. You could actually dual wallet, 525 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,440 have slack club cards and you're I find it very useful, always looking 526 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:00,679 for better organized. Very good. All right, thank you, Jimmy, 527 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,760 thank you Richard. Go out and hit lots of royal flushes, everybody. 528 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:05,760 Good day,